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London police have seized more than 2,500 illegal e-bikes in seven months, already beating all of last year, and the roadside machine they now use explains why so many failed
London police seized 2,500 e-bikes in seven months. New roadside detection tech explains the rise in enforcement actions.
Morocco is testing a porous ‘sponge’ pavement to replace scorching black asphalt in Marrakech and Agadir, and pilot data show it can run up to 16°F cooler
California startup JetZero is building a wide, wing-shaped passenger jet meant to burn up to 50% less fuel, and Japan Airlines just joined the project
His grandfather paid $2,200 for this new tractor in 1953, and 62 years later, his grandson did everything he could to recover it before it disappeared forever from the family’s history
The aircraft, designed to replace the traditional tube-and-wing configuration, will seat 250 passengers and have a range of nearly 5,800 miles, though it still faces several major uncertainties
The cheapest and longest lasting electric car battery is the one nobody wants to recycle, and Colorado passed a law to fix the math before those packs become hazardous waste
Driving 100 kilometers in an electric car can cost just 2 or 3 euros compared with 10 to 15 euros in gasoline, a difference that is starting to hit wallets hard
China has introduced the first electric vehicle with a sodium-ion battery capable of driving 400 km on one charge, a bet that could make the next generation of cars cheaper
China will send 269 electric buses to a Latin American city and turn it into one of the first with a fully electric public transit fleet, the kind of urban leap that does not happen every day
- Electric vehicle batteries are beating expectations after hundreds of thousands of miles, and that could knock down one of the most common fears about EVs
- The electric truck is no longer just a green promise: in Chile, a transport entrepreneur says its operating cost now matches diesel and may even beat it, a line that sounds like a turning point for heavy logistics
- Bosch has just broken with more than a decade of tradition in the e-bike industry with its first rear hub motor, a 5.1-pound urban system designed to integrate seamlessly into the wheel
- A tiny emissions code on a car document could stop older diesel vehicles from entering northern Italy, and tourists may discover it too late
- Tlaxcala surprised everyone with its own solar-powered electric car, priced at less than 100,000 pesos: a locally manufactured vehicle that promises up to 250 kilometers of range and a rather outlandish idea—partially recharging using sunlight.
- A small airport in Florida was the scene of a low-key but impressive test: a manned electric plane took off using solid-state batteries capable of charging to 80% in less than 15 minutes
- China’s wild idea: a 1,118-mile rail bridge across the Gobi that dares gravity, sandstorms, and basic common sense
- A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart to pick up the world’s largest battery-electric ferry for South America, and the scale point is that the vessel is about 430 feet long and built to carry around 2,100 passengers on the Argentina-Uruguay route
- A submerged tunnel under the Strait of Magellan is gaining traction as a way to link Tierra del Fuego to the mainland, and the key update is that new analyses reportedly cut projected costs to about one-third for a roughly two-mile crossing
- Turkey’s “Canal Istanbul” plan is being framed as a $1-billion-plus shortcut, and the key detail is the size, about 28 miles long connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara
- One of the world’s biggest excavators has a projected 60-year lifespan, and the twist is the scale: about 16.5 million pounds, a boom roughly 427 feet long, and 19 electric motors pushing nearly 19,830 horsepower
- A Latin American country is moving massive amounts of earth to build a “dry canal” route pitched as bigger than the Panama Canal, and what’s bold is that it’s trying to reroute global trade without digging a single lock
- Crewless and able to stay submerged for 16 weeks, Germany’s Greyshark drone sub uses hydrogen and 17 sensors, and its endurance redefines what underwater surveillance can be
- The heaviest load ever hauled by a trailer was a roughly 16,300-ton naval block, and the 324-axle transport looks like industrial choreography designed not to crack the ground
- A man turns a car engine into a working boat setup, reroutes cooling with external water, and adds a prop shaft and anticorrosion protection so it actually runs on the water
- Peru is also building a trench on its border with Chile, but for different reasons, and the simple construction doubles as a practical tool and a political message
- At about 39,700 pounds with six wheels, a V-shaped hull, and amphibious capability, Brazil’s Guaraní armored vehicle carries 11 troops across water and rough terrain, and its design shows how mobility is being modernized
- While the world fights over oil, China just flew a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo plane powered by a megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop, climbing to 984 feet, covering 22.4 miles at 137 mph, and landing 16 minutes later with the engine running smoothly the whole way
- It took a truck with 152 wheels to move a 302,000-pound tunnel-boring cutterhead, and the transport logistics look like an engineering project inside another engineering project
- China is building a massive floating airport in the middle of the ocean, and the idea of a runway on water shows how far engineering goes when land runs out
- France just approved France Libre, a 78,000-ton nuclear aircraft carrier projected at about $12 billion, and the catch is it will not enter service until 2038, the same year the current Charles de Gaulle is scheduled to retire
- The Beartooth Highway links Montana and Wyoming near Yellowstone, and its high-altitude stretch turns a simple drive into one of America’s most dramatic roads
- The U.S. Navy loses 13 ships… and the most worrying detail is not the number, it is what it suggests about the future of the fleet
- Panama wants a pedestrian tunnel under the Canal: it sounds crazy… until you see the plan, the numbers, and the “why now” (there is more than one reason)
- A 60-year-old Chinese farmer spends just $700 and builds a homemade submarine capable of diving 26 feet: the craziest part is not the invention, it’s what he plans to do next
- China deploys 1,400 ships and draws a 200-mile “barrier” at sea: it looks like fishing… but the scale is so massive it smells like something else